By Deroy Murdock
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
New York — I personally pledge to purchase for the
Central Intelligence Agency as much Kleenex as needed so that those whom it
waterboards can dry their noses after detailing their plans to exterminate
Americans. This signals how little I am bothered by the “torture” alleged in
Senate Democrats’ borderline-treasonous “report” on the CIA’s post-September 11
interrogation techniques.
Democrats’ highly convenient collective amnesia has
erased their memories of being briefed on these probes. As a giant hole replaced
the World Trade Center and Americans feared follow-on attacks, top
congressional Democrats did not wail that interrogations of al-Qaeda suspects
“are a stain on our values and our history,” as Senate Intelligence Committee
chairman Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) now moans. Instead, top Democrats told
the CIA to squeeze these scum even harder.
As the December 9, 2007, Washington Post explained,
congressional leaders from both chambers and parties — including then-House
Democratic boss Nancy Pelosi of California — received “graphic and detailed”
updates on the CIA’s questioning efforts, including waterboarding, as early as
September 2002. While then-representative Jane Harman (D., Calif.) counseled
caution, the overwhelming response was applause.
“Among those being briefed, there was a pretty full
understanding of what the CIA was doing,” Porter Goss, former House
intelligence chairman and then director of Central Intelligence from 2004 to
2006, told the Post. “And the reaction in the room was not just approval, but
encouragement.”
According to an American official who attended these
sessions, “The briefer was specifically asked if the methods were tough
enough.” One official also observed that “there was no objecting, no
hand-wringing. The attitude was, ‘We don’t care what you do to those guys as
long as you get the information you need to protect the American people.’”
“I can remember going back to hearings and meetings with
the Congress back in 2002,” Jose Rodriguez, the CIA’s then-director of clandestine
services, told Chris Wallace on the December 14 edition of Fox News Sunday.
“Their biggest thing they told me was, ‘You know, your problem is that you guys
are risk-averse. You got to go out and use the authorities that you’re given to
protect America.’ . . . So, all of these people knew exactly what we were
doing.”
It is beyond nauseating to see yesterday’s hard-as-nails
Democrats today weep over the discomfort of vermin such as Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed, al-Qaeda’s former military chief. KSM personally orchestrated the
incineration of 2,977 innocents on September 11, 2001. Among his other
atrocities, KSM brags that he “decapitated with my blessed right hand the head
of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl.”
Despite the Democrats’ claims that “torture” yielded
bupkis, waterboarding KSM finally made him talk, after months of answering
interrogators’ queries with thoroughly useless quotes from the Koran.
Waterboarding enticed KSM to give up Hambali, the mastermind of the October
2002 Bali nightclub bombings. That attack murdered 202 vacationers, including
seven Americans, and injured 209 others. Waterboarding encouraged KSM to rat
out Iyman Faris. He was busy acquiring welding torches, with which he planned
to sever the cables that suspend the Brooklyn Bridge. Waterboarding also
inspired KSM to reveal Jemaah Islamiyah’s conspiracy to fly jumbo jets into Los
Angeles’ 73-story Library Tower. September 11 — The Sequel was unraveled,
thanks to “torture” that Senate Democrats (with backup vocals by GOP Senator
John McCain of Arizona) now argue “was not an effective means of acquiring
intelligence.”
• The word torture recalls those poor souls who were
trapped in the Twin Towers as smoke billowed into the sky. Faced with either
being burned alive or leaping 100-plus stories onto the sidewalks of New York,
scores picked the latter as the less excruciating option.
That is what torture looks like.
• The family of FDNY firefighter Michael Ragusa never
recovered his body after the 29-year-old was murdered at the World Trade Center
on September 11. However, he had donated a vial of blood to the National Marrow
Donor Program. That vial was returned to Ragusa’s parents. They placed it in a
casket and, thus, laid their son to rest after the 343rd funeral among the 343
FDNY members killed on 9/11.
That is what torture looks like.
• In one sense, though, the Ragusas are fortunate. They
had something to bury. According to New York City’s Office of Chief Medical
Examiner, the loved ones of 1,114 people killed at the World Trade Center never
received body parts or anything else from those they mourn. The fathers,
mothers, sons, daughters, boyfriends, girlfriends, and best friends who were
stolen from them vanished — utterly and completely. These people were
vaporized, and nothing whatsoever remains of them. When those who miss them
every day wish to leave roses on their graves, they cannot. Each one is a child
left behind.
That is what torture looks like.
Too bad Senate Democrats do not seem especially bothered
by any of this. Despite being begged by Secretary of State John Kerry to sit on
this document, they released it, and Obama applauded as they did so. “I have
consistently supported the declassification of today’s report” Obama said on
December 9.
The CIA’s so-called “torture” methods that so enrage
Democrats included, according to the paper, “facial slap,” “loud noise or
music,” “blowing cigarette or cigar smoke into a detainee’s face,” and “using
cold water to interrogate detainees.” Also, “The CIA led several detainees to
believe they would never be allowed to leave CIA custody alive.”
Wow. This sounds like the Spanish Inquisition.
The Islamic State last week reportedly beheaded four
Christian children in Iraq, none older than 15, for declining its invitation to
denounce Jesus and convert to Islam. A pro–Islamic State website that endorses
such butchery suggested that the terror group “try to acquire the same torture
methods used by the CIA against any Western — including American — hostages,” Marwan
Khayat of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) told the Washington
Times. He added that these Islamic State supporters want these bloodthirsty
killers to release videos of such encounters “to show the world what the U.S.
is capable of.”
Absent the Democrats’ high-profile document — which
numerous authorities implored Democrats to withhold, lest they provide aid and
comfort to America’s enemies during wartime — the Islamic State would lack the
fresh details needed to mount such a devastating propaganda onslaught.
Furthermore, this manifesto has enraged this country’s
enemies in combat. “A Taliban spokesman in Afghanistan told CBS News that the
group plans to retaliate by intensifying its attacks against Americans,” the
network reported Wednesday.
If anyone anywhere gets injured or killed because of this
dangerous, damaging, and now possibly deadly report, the ensuing blood should
engulf Feinstein, Obama, and other Democrats who produced this one-sided,
partisan attack pamphlet — devoid of interviews with the CIA officers accused
of atrocities — and insisted on publicizing it.
This is a snapshot of today’s Democrat party: It is so
steeped in political correctness and hostile to American interests that it
constitutes a clear and present danger to this republic. In November 2016,
American voters should remember this key moment and dispatch Democrats to the
same political oblivion to which the Whigs were relegated by 1860.
Meanwhile, America’s premier intelligence agency should
offer this deal to everyone on Earth: “If you don’t want the CIA to waterboard
you, just say, ‘No!’ to jihad.”
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